Events Calendar + Announcements

  • Wanted - Deputy Editor for Tanzanian Affairs
    Tanzanian Affairs is looking for a volunteer to join in the writing and assist in the editing of contributions from the team of writers who put this journal together three times a year.
    For more information please contact the Editor, David Brewin.
  • Events relating to Britain/Tanzania
    To request an appropriate event or announcement be listed on this website, email Paul Harrison as far in advance as possible.

Announcements

  • BTS Newsletter - Stories and Ideas Requested
    Please send your ideas, comments and copy, plus any digital images, for inclusion in the next newsletter (September 2008) to Richard Barton-Wood
    Deadline: 1st August 2008. Email Richard or post items to: Richard Barton-Wood, Editor, 15 Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0PH.
  • TDT & BTS Committee meetings for 2008
    27 February
    20 May
    15 September
    26 November
    All meetings held at Millbank Tower, London
  • BTS Scotland Meetings for 2007/08
    Dates of forthcoming meetings in Edinburgh: Saturday 21 June: Frederick Longino A talk about his PhD on witchcraft and child abuse: Accusations of Child Abuse linked to beliefs in Witchcraft and Religious Exorcism: Can we believe in them? Plus: Saturday 11 October: speaker will be Surendra Thaker. Please contact Mary Willis 01506 842638 if you wish to attend.
  • Further contact addresses for Scottish Group: Ralph Ibbott 11 Nicholson Way, Livingston EH54 8LS. 01506 434766; Ann Burgess; Roy and Mary Willis 01506 842638; Jim McCarthy.
  • 2008 AGM - Advance Notice
    This year?s BTS AGM will be held on Saturday 11 October and the Tanzania High Commissioner hopes to address us. The venue this year will be at SOAS, Russell Square, London. The committee hopes it will prove convenient for everyone. We have booked a room with seats for over 100 people and plenty of space for tables and displays. Please make a note of the date in your diary. Full details will follow with the September Newsletter.
  • BTS/TDT Study Tour of Southern Tanzania
    BTS is organising, in association with Simply Tanzania, a study tour of southern Tanzania, departing around mid-June 2008. The tour will visit Tanzania Development Trust projects in Iringa, Mbeya and Tukuyu and hopefully Njombe and Songea. There will be stays in the Ruaha National Park and by Lake Nyasa/Malawi. Travels will be in good quality 4X4 vehicles with guides and most accomodation will be of a good standard. To register an to find out more (without obligation), contact Tony Janes at Simply Tanzania on +44 (0)20 8986 0615.
  • BTS in the Media
    JK salutes Britain-Tanzania Society
    President Jakaya Kikwete has commended the Britain-Tanzania Society (BTS)'s continued support to Tanzania's economic development, terming the society members as 'ambassadors of goodwill.'
  • Kikwete Praises BTS
    President Kikwete has paid glowing tribute to the Britain Tanzania Society (BTS), for rendering critical aid in the education, health and other social sectors. Mr Kikwete was speaking on Monday at a dinner hosted by the BTS. He said he was particularly moved to note that the organisation had spent over half a million sterling pounds in social work in Tanzania.